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VPR Score: 4.4
Synopsis
The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
Description
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenSSL, a Secure Sockets Layer toolkit. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues :
- CVE-2017-3737 David Benjamin of Google reported that OpenSSL does not properly handle SSL_read() and SSL_write() while being invoked in an error state, causing data to be passed without being decrypted or encrypted directly from the SSL/TLS record layer.
- CVE-2017-3738 It was discovered that OpenSSL contains an overflow bug in the AVX2 Montgomery multiplication procedure used in exponentiation with 1024-bit moduli.
Details can be found in the upstream advisory:
https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20171207.txt
Solution
Upgrade the openssl1.0 packages.
For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.2l-2+deb9u2.